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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age

Chapter 126: APPENDIX UFO AND OTHER INCIDENTS REFERRED TO
By Donald H. Menzel
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The authors survey thousands of reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, categorizing sightings and offering natural explanations such as atmospheric optics, astronomical objects, meteors, weather balloons, radar artifacts, and mass suggestion. They analyze representative cases, discuss photographic and radar evidence, examine alleged contact claims and physical trace reports, and assess electromagnetic and gravitational theories proposed for reported effects. Illustrated examples, case studies, and discussion of investigative methods aim to separate misperceptions and hoaxes from genuinely unexplained incidents while outlining how ordinary natural or human-made causes can account for most sightings.

  Date Place Associated
name		 Page
1913 February 9 Canada Great Meteor
Procession		 107
1947 Jan. 12 Puerto Rico   99
  June 24 Chehalis, Wash. Arnold 13
  June 31 Tacoma, Wash. Maury Island 21
  July 7 Kentucky   58
1948 Jan. 7 Louisville, Ky. Mantell 33
  Feb. 18 Norton, Kans.   102
  July 24 Alabama Chiles-Whitted 109
  July 26 Southeast states   111
  July 27 Tennessee   112
  Oct. 1 Fargo, N.D. Gorman 77
  December New Mexico Green fireballs 93
1949 Aug. 20 Las Cruces, N.M. Tombaugh 266
1950 March 8 Dayton, Ohio   70
  March 17 Farmington, N.M.   48
  June 4 Colorado   95
  July 4 New Mexico Fry 200
  Aug. 11 Washington, Oregon   95
  Sep. 20 Murray, Ky.   96
  Sep. 20 Western states   98
  Nov. 2 Eastern states   95
1951 May 29 Downey, Calif.   129
  Aug. 25 Lubbock, Tex. Lubbock lights 123
  Nov. 2 Texas   95
1952 Jan. 6 California Van Tassel 201
  Jan. 22 Alaska   152
  Jan. 29 Eastern states   100
  May 7 Brazil Ilha dos Amores 206
  June 15 Virginia   39
  June 21 Oak Ridge, Tenn.   76
  July 2 Tremonton, Utah   130
  July 5 Hanford, Wash.   135
  July 7 Pacific Northwest   135
  July 12 Indiana   135
  July 14 Chesapeake Bay, Va. Nash-Fortenberry 256
  July 16 Salem, Mass. Coast Guard photo 122
  July 19 Washington, D.C. Radar saucers 155
  July 26 Washington, D.C. Radar saucers 155
  July 27 Manhattan Beach, Calif. Stack of coins 49
  July 27 Nevada Bethurum 201
  July 29 Port Huron, Mich.   160
  Aug. 1 Bellefontaine, Ohio   162
  Aug. 3 Hamilton A.F.B., Calif.   46
  Aug. 8 Durango, Colo.   50
  Aug. 10 Durango, Colo.   50
  Aug. 19 W. Palm Beach, Fla. Scoutmaster 136
  Aug. 24 Hermanas, N.M.   47
  Sep. 12 Sutton, W.Va. Sutton monster 137
  Sep. 24 Cuba   42
  Oct 10 Presque Isle, Me.   139
  Oct 10 France Angel hair 220
  Oct 27 France Angel hair 220
  Nov. 20 California Adamski 203
  Dec. 6 Gulf of Mexico   5
  Dec. 10 Odessa, Wash.   62
  Dec. 29 Japan Rotating lights 73
1953 Jan. 9 Japan Rotating lights 73
  Jan. 21 Japan Rotating lights 73
  Feb. 6 Rosalia, Wash.
  May 2 Calcutta, India BOAC Comet 276
  May 31 New South Wales   26
  July 29 New York Moon Bridge 228
  Aug. 5 Rapid City, S.D. Ellsworth A.F.B. 167
  Aug. 19 New Haven, Conn.   231
  September England Invisible saucers 165
  Nov. 23 Michigan Kinross 154
  Nov. 28 Eastern states   99
1954 Jan. 30 Indiana   85
  Sep. 18 San Francisco, Calif.   92
  Sep. 18 New Mexico, Colorado   92
  Oct. 2 France   123
  Oct. 22 Marysville, Ohio Jerome School 222
  Nov. 30 Sylacauga, Ala.   88
  November Taormina, Sicily   205
  Dec. 13 Campinas, Brazil Silver rain 231
1955 Feb. 21 Horseheads, N.Y. Angel hair 223
  March 3 Alaska   60
  May 19 Los Angeles, Calif.   130
  Oct. 31 Gainesville, Fla.   51
1956 Feb. 4 Accra, Africa   50
  March 20–22 Cincinnati, Ohio   67
  April 8 New York Ryan 68
  Summer U.S.S.R.   178
  Aug. 26 California   130
  Sep. 10 Salina, Kansas   164
  Sep. 25 Cincinnati, Ohio Angel hair 224
  Dec. 29 White Pass, Wash.   28
  December U.S.S.R.   178
1957 March 9 Atlantic Ocean PanAm-San Juan 104
  July 24 Norway   248
  Sep. ? Ubataba, Brazil   236
  Nov. 2 Levelland, Tex.   174
  Nov. 3 White Sands, N.M.   180
  Nov. 4 Orogrande, N.M.   181
  Nov. 5 Kearney, Neb. Schmidt 183
  Nov. 5 Brazil Itaipu Fort 184
  Nov. 5 Gulf of Mexico Sebago 182
  Nov. 7 Ohio Moore 185
1958 Jan. 16 Brazil Trindade Island 206
  April 11 Johannesburg, S. Africa The Thing 51
  April 14 Eastern seaboard Sputnik II 116
  Sep. 21 Sheffield Lake, Ohio Fitzgerald 279
  Sep. 29 Maryland Nike site 239
  Oct. 2 Danby, Calif.   243
  Oct. 26 Maryland Lock Raven Dam 180
1959 Jan. 8 Pennsylvania   113
  Feb. 6 Boulder, Colo.   249
  Feb. 24 Pennsylvania Killian 52
  March 13 Duluth, Minn.   72
  March 22 Ann Arbor, Mich.   241
  March-April Coburn, Va. Sheep Rock saucer 224
  June 20 Pacific Ocean   105
  July 11 Pacific Ocean   106
  Oct. 12 Washington, Ga.   225
  Oct. 19 Korea   73
1960 March 7 East coast   277
  March 31 France   245
  April 1 Wallops Island, Va.   44
  Aug. 12–20 Northern California Red Bluff 253
  Oct. 5 Greenland   166
  Nov. 23 Michigan   225
  Nov. 23 New Mexico   99
1961 March 16 England   56
  March 23–30 Florida   250
  April 18 Eagle River, Wis. Pancakes 226
  July New Mexico   57
  July 23 Pacific Ocean   103
  August Los Alamos, N.M.   177
  Oct. 2 Salt Lake City, Utah   245
  Oct. 17 Netherlands Antilles   57
1962 April 18 Eureka, Utah   189
  Sep. 9 England Blue rain 234
  Sep. 11 Sebree, Ky.   223